Author : Arlene

It seems there is always something to contend with, a “crisis du jour,” so to speak.  I am moved to address this current “crisis” –...

It’s official.  Last night the Knesset voted – 93 in favor, no votes against and no abstentions – to disband itself.  We are in a...

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) It wouldn’t do, I suppose, for the political situation to have clarity for too long. Or for the news to simply be...

It’s a long time since I have had a positive – even tentatively positive – sense of the political scene here in Israel. But here...

Let us begin today by looking briefly at the historical situation that immediately followed Israel’s Declaration of Independence and the subsequent War of Independence.  At...

Motzei Shabbat (after Shabbat) “Kaf Tet B’November” is precisely this: the 29th of November. Sixty seven years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly voted...

This phrase is usually identified as an “old Chinese curse,” while in fact it is neither old nor Chinese in origin.  What it is, clearly,...

If I said that things were good, I would be nothing but a Pollyanna.  But I do believe there are some signs here in Israel...

A bit more follow up and analysis before Shabbat… Some of the recommended actions I wrote about yesterday, and more, have been put in place. ...

  The death toll in the Nar Nof massacre has risen to five. Master Sergeant  Zidan Saif, 30 – of the Druse village of Kfar...